THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1947.
Russian-Directed Spies Still Active In Canada
BASES DENIED
TO RUSSIA
J
Oslo, Mar. 3. The Norwegian parlia ment, in a secret session on February 15, rojected Russian request for military, bases on the Arctic archipe- lago of Spitzbergen, official statement announc. ed to-day.
an
The vote was 101 to 11. The. }1
were all Com- munists.-Associated Press.
canta
POLES FEAR
WINTER
CATASTROPHE
Warsaw. Mar. 3.
port crisis threatened to cause a catastrophe in Poland to-day.
Washington, Mar, 3.
Bernard M. Baruch's 'foar that atomic secrets are loaking in Canada was supported to-day by knowledge that Russian- directed nativo spies are still presumed to be at work there. Last year's Canadian investigation of Communist es- pionage directed by members of the Soviet Embassy scarcely scratched the surface. That state in supported by the Canadian Royal Commission réport on espionage. The Commissioners said there were several intelligence networks directed by Embassy personnel. ›
The Investigation was able to Canndian "fellow-traveller" who has dig only into the Red Army access to atomic or other secret In-
formation, espionage net directed by Col
Serious Chargon Nicolai Zabotin, the Embassy's
The Inquiry began too late to No informa- catch Zabotin, who directed the military attache. tion whatever Was obtained espionage which led some of hin to jail. Zabotin about other espionage activity Canadian dupes excopt that it was considerable. left Canuda for a visit to Moscow in December 1945. He never came Zabotin had a Russian staff of 14
back. persons at the Embassy for what the Royal Commissioners reported ag “espionage purposes.'
dia-
Anxiety about the security ut atomie information In Canada
Is based partly on the fact that the other Rusalan neta escaped covery and that the investigation of Zabotin's spy ring could not be com- pleted.
Of the 18 Canadians charged with collaborating in varying degrees in
The Canadian investigators did not get very deeply into Communist activities in Canada but they had enough to make some serious charges
Among them were: 1. There exists in Canada a fifth columa organised and directed
by
POCKET CARTOON Bevin Optimistic About
Ajaym
"Ah! my relief?"
AMERICA
RELEASES
DRAFTEES-
Prospects In Moscow
London, Mar. 3.
On the eve of his departure to-night for the Big Four talks in Moscow, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin declared: "I feel we have now got to the stage when people realise we have got to settle the world and fix the charted course for humanity in years to come.”
Mr Bevin made this comment in an exclusive interview before beginning to pack for his trip to Russia. The Foreign Minister professed himself very fit and looking forward to his trip and his renewal of association with the other members of the Big Four.
INDIA PAID THROUGH NOSE
FOR FOOD
*I am going out in hope," said Mr Bevin. "I don't know what is going to happen during the talks in Moscow. So far as that goes nobody knows, hut as usual I have a feeling of optimism us to the outcome of our delibera- tions."
Mr Bevin teaven with Defence Minister A. V. Alexander aboard the Golden Arrow train to-morrow mor
ing for the signing at Dunisirle of the Anglo-French treaty of alliance.
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New Delhi, Mar. 3. Interim Government leader Jawarbarlal Nehru told leading Washington, Mar. 3.
industrialists of India to-day President Truman, to-day re-
At Dover they will bunrd ́n des- that food-surplus nations had
WILL ANYONE who wit- commended to Congress that the forced India to pay "through the they will motor to Dunkirk. there
troyer for Calais and from
Later nessed a motor accident near Russian agents in Canada and draft law be allowed to expire nose" for imports needed to in the day Mr Bevin will go to the junction of Hennessy Road Russia;
within the fifth column thereon March 31, while the Army at stave off starvation.
to join the special train
Ewo Street (Causeway the same time announced that are several spy rings:
At the same time, Nehru protsed which will take him and his staff and
people for "bravely to Moscow.
Bay) at approximately 12.45 Flood and the winter trans-Zabolin's spy rink, nine have been 3. Membership in Communist or it is releasing approximately the British
dimculties" Ranisations Communist ideologien was the pri- 30.
It is thought possible that Mr .or sympathy toward 100,000 non-volunteers by June facing their economic
0]} the morning and the British Government for its | Bevin may spend a few hours nta.m.
of White
some of the main cities economic
Paper which, he force which caused these
through Saturday, March 1, resulting in which he will pass-Brussels, Ber- Canadian agents to do the acts re-
said, set an example for Indin.
Nehru said the British decision to lin, Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk the deaths of two people and ferred to in their individual casea;
Injuries to two other persons, 4. There was an organisation
withdraw from India In June next Reuter.
Change Of Plans year was "generous." whose duty it was to procure false
please communicate with the Addressing leading business parsporla and other eltizenship documents for the use of agents
Industrial magnates whe gathered in
Manager, S. C. M. Post. London, Mar, 3. engaged in fifth column activities
the ballroom of New Delhi's Imperial
The Foreign Office announced to- Hotel for the 20th annual meeting of In Canada and elsewhere.
th: Federation of Indian Chambers night that the Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Bevin, had changed his plans
Senate Cuts U.S. of Commerce, Nehru emphasised the
would travel to France to- Interim Government's ambitious ind
absard
the regular crosa dustrialisation plans were aimed at Channel steamer Invicta, instead of
Budget the "production of better type human being in India."
by the destroyer Bicester..
Thousands of people are evacuating the lowlands upon being warned that the Vistula river is expected to rise 15 feet. The worst areas are at Cracow, Kielce and Sisa,
of ice at Warsaw.
sentenced to prison and one has. been lined. Six have been acquitted never Identified. All the Commissioners learned were the "cover names" by which they were described in documents obtained by the investigators.
and two still await trini.
Five others were
To their fellow-Communists aples these live were known Gini, Golio, Calyn,
Green
or
A
and
The river is frozen with 20 inches Surenson. Whoever they may be, it is presumed that they are still on the job, sending what they can learn to Moscow. There is no assuranco that any one of the cover names does not hide the identity of some
Any break-up, even a minor one, is expected to smash the flimsy would low temporary bridges and bring transport to a standstj31.
The winter crops have bren frozen. and seed
plants for next
scrapped.
year UNRRA shipments of
food cannot come
In through the
frozen harbours, so food shipments | have arrived for a month-United Press.
Child Pianists Captivate
New York, Mar. 3. An enthusiastic audience and reviewers loudly applauded the debut here of the Shanghai "pinno children" Madeleine, Sophie and George Vinchos Wei, which was highlighted by eight year-old George playing two of his own compositions, the first of which was dedicated to his mother and the second, entitled "Victory Day," dedicated to the memory of the late Franklin Roosevelt,
even
Madeleine, in a curtain speech, said: "We promised to bring thanks through our music from Chinn to America for your help in the wor." The Herald-Tribune commented: "George's size, though small for his age, did not hinder him from attacking
the keyboard with vigour and with a sense of dynamic con- trasts."
According to the New York Times, "The children captured the Town Hall audience with their charm."- United Press,
Snowstorm And
70 MPH Gale
:
Lewis Case
Decision Delayed
Washington, Mar 3.
The Supreme Court has de- layed for at least another week its decision on the Government's contempt case against John L. Lowis and his American Federn- tion of Labour United Mine workens.
The Court's failure to act to-day meant that no decision would he handed down until, at the earliest, 21 days before the Lewis' strike truce expires in the soft coal fields.
Captain N. II. Collison, administru- tor of Government-operated mines, revealed that uncertainty on the Court's ruling was the major reason the Government was unable to get negotiations started between Lewis and the Mine owners to avoid a new coal crisis.
To-day's decisions included a Court agreement to decide the constitu- tionality of the Lea-Act-passed-by- Congress to curb union activities of the music czar, James Petrillo, and held unconstitutional by n court-United Press,
lower
mary
were
Embassy Officials Involved The report said members of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa actively
In engorell activities.
espionage The report occasionally touches on Communist activity in the United States. Its implication was that Embassy-directed espionage through native dupes was standırıl
the Russian practice--In
United States and elsewhere.
Testimony before the Investigators tagged the Communist fifth column as a rubversive organisation directed from abrund for Russian interests. The investigators learned that in Otawn and other Russian embasales. there is n secret political organisation.
4. In. Ottawa
headed by one Goussarov,
Goussarov's job was said to in- clude transmitting political directives from his superiors in Moscow to the leaders of the Concdian Communist movement, along with instructions on methods af operation, including the formation of Communist front organisations.—United Press.
was
Mr Truman's message said that he drafted men are being discharged in order to bring the Army down to its projected strength of 1,079,000 by July 1.
The War Department said that all the commanders at home and over- seus had been ordered to stort the release of eligible men.
The President's message said the War and Navy Departments will re- quest a re-enactment of the Selec- live Service Act Inter if they are unable to keep the Army and Navy at the authorised strength through voluntary enlistments.---Associated
Press.
EZTA LANCHEURBANNERIC BOMOAARDENER
GRUESOME FIND IN ADELAIDE
news-
Adelaide, Mar, 3. The bodies of eight babies, packed in papers or cardboard boxes, were discovered in an undertaker's premises here to-day.
Some of the babies bad been dend nearly nine months.-Reuter.
Jap Communists Study Election Campaigning
Tokyo, Mar. 3.
About 400 young Communists to-day began a three- week study on methods of conducting the coming election campaign. When the course is completed the young Reds will go back to their units to spread the word to associates.
CHURCHILL
ANGRY
(Continued from Pago 1 Palestine would receive the full
MOSLEM AIM support of the Government in any
OPPOSED
Lahore, Mar. 3.
The Punjab Moslem League to-day announced its acceptance of an invitation to form a new provincial government to replace the
coalition cabinet which resigned last Sunday.
What the attitude of the Hindu- lod Congress parly is toward this
move is uncertain.
further action which might prove necessary. He was sure they would have the support of Parliament.
The principal speaker to-night was Sanzo Nozaka, top Japanese Communist, who fled from Japan to Moscow where he worked with the Comintern and "studied nine years" before joining the Chinese Communists, who fought both the Japanese and Nationalist Chinese.
While the Ilsteners scribbled notes with pencils, clutched in hands bent with cold in the dim and windy "I must again condemn thesexymansiuni, Nozaka said: "Sprend murderous outrages in Palestine." propaganda so the masses can un- the Colonial Secretary said, adding derstand. Talk with old ladies, wo- that they could in no way help to- men, wards a solution.
Parliament, he sald, would
to long have nil naswers
and
of
for Moslems in a plen to the national enity, he said any division of the country would bar economic planning and progress.
British Businessman Wolcomo
Nehru, who spent many years in British prisons in India, spoke kindly of Britain and British business men. He iterated his statement in Cal- cutia two months ago that British business men would be welcome if they adjusted themselves to the new regime.
Nehru was greeted with wild np-| plse when he asserted: "India is going to be the centre of Asia."
Ife praised Australia's External Affairs Minister, Dr Herbert Evatt, for recommending close co-operation with India, especially in the common defenes of Asia-United Press.
ENDS
ARGUS
CAREER
London, Mar 3. The world's first aircraft carrier,
Argus, Britain's 14,000-ton
which was designed in 1912 and built from A commercial ship hull six years later, has arrived at Inverkeithing shipyards where she will be scrap- ped, Lloyd's List sald to-day.
Originally costing £1,300,000, she was rotted twice and served out the recent war as an escort carrier and later as a school ship.--United Press.
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plore the decision of the
de- Slogans hanging in the classrooms Jewish said: "Overthrow the notion-des wholeheartedly to the recent inviti-and inflation," and "A government of Atrmail: community not to respond more troy the government of black market tion of the High Commissioner to working people through democratic co-operate against terrorists.
peoples."--Associated Press.
U.S. NAVY WAR
CASUALTIES
New York, Mar. 3. A furlous winter snowstorm swept through the north-eastern states Into Canada in 'n 70-mph gale, leaving at least 15 persons dead in the United States and 10 in Canada.
Mr Churchill asked why it was The fiercest storm of the winter
thought that the measures now pro-
were posed burled villages and hamlets under
more effective ilian others taken at various times during as much as 37 Inches of snow, crip- Tarty sources said that they were the last 12 months after similar out- pled electricity power in numerous waiting orders from the
Congress ragez cities and towns, closed schools, 180- Executive meeting in Delhi this
Mr Creech Jones replied lated towns and brought near dians week,
that what happened now was declaration
Washington, Mar. 3. ter to shipping in the Atlantic.
The The Sikh legislature howover, of statutory martial law, in which
All United States Navy men mis- New England, upper New York passed л resolution that State and Canada were hardest hit. would oppose the
they whale areas were not only cordoned sing in combat in the recent war Moslem League | off, but most intensive Seventy-miles-an-hour winds were "with all our strength
searches have been accounted for, the Navy both inside were being conducted, and for the reports. reported in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and outside of the Legislative As-moment elvil law was suspended.
Total oversens casualties between Ogdensburg, New York, was buried sembly so long
December 7, 1941, and January, under 37 inches of
as Its objective is snow.United Pakistan or Mostem domination in
1947, were listed at 40,435 for the Press.
the Punjab."-Associated Press.
Navy: 21,786 for the Marine Corps, and 1,038 the Coast Guard.
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Wednesday, March 5
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Straits, Batavia, 2 p..
Kongmoon, 4 pjm.
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Thursday, March a
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Canton, Chungking, Amoy, Shanghai,
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TO-DAY'S BROADCASTS
Musical Forms-No. 1 "The Sonata" From The Studio
Mr Sydney Silverman, Jewish La- bourite, asked if Mr. Creech Jones would confirm the reported state- ment of General Gale that he had received considerable assistance from the Jewish community in this matter and whether those who wished to assist in the preservation of order in Palestine might be strengthened by a more generous Immigration polley (Cries of no) in the interval between now and final settlement by the United Nations,
Mr. Creech Jones replied that he from its present terminal in, Saigon 630 to 11 pan and stood from 1430 Have an undertaking in last week's debate that all suggestions then to Shanghai in May or June, using cycles in the 31 metre band from 11.30 made would receive close study by DC-4 planes, thus completing the re- the British Government. That study sumption of its prowar lines. United was now going on...
It was true that during the last month or so that, the Jewish com munity had taken active steps to re- chce terrorism, but unfortunately they were
not able to respond wholeheartedly to the request made by the High Commissioner.
New York, Mar. 3. Air France to-day announced the extension of its Far Eastern route
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plied: "Do not give way to bullies." Mr Creech Jones eventually said, amid_loud Ministerial cheers, that if the Opposition would show elemen- tary good manners anti had not rhouted they would have heard him reply in the negative,
Mr Creech Jones Was "Don't be Impudent."
"DON'T BE IMPUDENT" When Mr Creech Jones did not im mediately rise to answer a question by a Conservative Member whether all information in the Government's Mr Seymour Cocks (Labour) asked possession on relations between the the Colonial Secretary to consider the Stern Gang, Irgun Zvel Leumi und history of a parallel šikation which Printed and published by Frederick Haganah and the Jewish Agency took place in Ireland 27 years ago, Percy Franklin for and on behalf of could be published, there were lout to which Mr. Cretch Jones replied | South Chind Morning Fest Limited Conservative etits of "Answer to that that was very much, in the Gov-st.1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Vie which a Government supporter re-ferment's mind.--Reuter.
toria. In the Colony of Hongkong.
morrow
Mr Bevin decided to go on the became ap- regular steamer when parent that the destroyer could not accommodate both the official party and the newspapermen
who will cover the Dunkirk ceremony. United Press.
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Washington, Mnr. 3. The Senate han approved and sent bacit to the House # resolution
pledging a $4,500,000,000 cut President Truman's budget and pro- mising to usc $2,600,000,000 0. any savings to reduce the national debt.-Associated Press.
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